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[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

PREACH. This is why I gave AGI doomerism a rebuttal at Monktoberfest: it is being used to contemplate absolutely wild actions, preventing us from seeing the true (mundane!) dangers of AI. https://t.co/wSxxLuU9aQ

[Takahiro Haruyama @cci_forensics]

VMW Carbon Black TAU discovered 34 unique vulnerable WDF/WDM drivers (237 file hashes), including ones made by major chip/BIOS/PC makers. By exploiting the drivers, an attacker without privilege may erase/alter firmware, and/or elevate OS privileges. https://t.co/lfVpj4Lt3T

[Halvar Flake @halvarflake]

The less fun part of being a senior/seasoned engineer is that with increased experience more of your job becomes kicking bad ideas to death before they can cause harm.

[Joshua Saxe @joshua_saxe]

Having spent a year in ML outside security, and now being back in security, I'm remembering that perhaps the hardest thing about security ML is identifying actually useful applications of ML. Not so in domains like computer vision where ML is the only game in town

[mdowd @mdowd]

Twitter is more than just free speech; it’s context-free speech

[Eli @elzr]

A fundamental link between logic, computation & geometry is that every truth table is also a binary tree and also a cube.

[Xeno Kovah @XenoKovah]

📢Request for beta testers for Secure C/C++ Software Development class📢

If you have C/C++ developers at your organization who need to know how to avoid writing exploitable vulnerabilities, please ask them to sign up for this free class:

https://t.co/XU3mxFvuFY

[Halvar Flake @halvarflake]

Life is really short. Spend time with people that make you happy. On activities that make you happy. And try to work on things that make you happy or proud, if you have the privilege to choose that.

[Halvar Flake @halvarflake]

Every workday spent working on a mediocre product is a day where you are not fulfilling your potential.

[Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson]

50% of the time when I read docs, I'd rather just read the source code. 95% of the time, the source code is like 5+ clicks away. All I want for my birthday this year is links straight from docs into the source code on GitHub.

[Halvar Flake @halvarflake]

In a world full of largely homogeneous goods, it is fascinating what role branding takes on, and what impact that has on organisations and behavior.

[martin_casado @martin_casado]

[NewPost] Sure, Cloud is great. But we show it hurts share price of public companies on the order of hundreds of billions

... and they can economically justify almost any level of work (including repatriation) in order to lower costs (w/ @sarahdingwang)

https://t.co/k6ytG6bVHs

[Lionel Page @page_eco]

Fascinating interview where Steve Jobs describes his vision on how to hire and manage a team.
https://t.co/nla6uIU0kq

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

An obvious point that took me way too long to appreciate: in software engineering, you should probably optimize for speed even when you don't have to, because it's one of the easiest/best ways to prioritize subtraction and parsimony in the solution space. https://t.co/kYulYoV3uN.

[Eli Dourado @elidourado]

New blog post:

Is the Great Stagnation ending?
What technologies am I watching in the decade ahead?
Are we going to get life extension treatments soon?

5700+ words on all of this. Please read and share!

https://t.co/5zIE48XpIC

[Halvar Flake @halvarflake]

I have to admit that I am somewhat rooting for the west to re-discover that manufacturing stuff matters.

Aside from jobs, it allows you to walk down a technological learning curve. The 1990's/2000's idea that building real things is somehow low-margin dirty work to be ...

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

#DataPrivacyDay comes at a time of great challenge, underscoring the critical role privacy and security play in our lives—from safeguarding your health & financial data to guarding against algorithms that perpetuate rampant misinformation. We need transparency and reform.

[Stephen Diehl @smdiehl]

Let's discuss the environmental cost of bitcoin. Because despite all the push for sustainable and green investment in the tech sector, there's a giant smoldering Chernobyl sitting at the heart of Silicon Valley which a lot of investors would prefer you remain quiet about. 🧵 (1/)

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol.